The Automatic Motorist Explained

The Automatic Motorist
Director:	Walter R. Booth
Studio:	Kineto Films
Runtime:	10 mins
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	Silent

The Automatic Motorist is a 1911 British silent comic trick film, directed by Walter R. Booth,^[1] featuring a robot chauffeur taking an inventor and a young honeymooning couple on a wild ride around the planets and under the sea. The trick film is a "virtual remake of The '?' Motorist (1906)," according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "but on a bigger scale."^{[2] [3]}

External links

• • Full film on BFI Player

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Automatic Motorist. MUBI. 31 May 2012.
2. Web site: The Automatic Motorist . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023232442/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57096 . dead . 2012-10-23 . BFI Film & TV Database . 2011-04-24 .
3. Web site: How They Laughed . Paul . Merton . BFI Screenonline . 2011-04-24 .